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An outcast is someone who is rejected or cast out, as from home or from society [1] or in some way excluded, looked down upon, or ignored. In common English speech, an outcast may be anyone who does not fit in with normal society, which can contribute to a sense of isolation. Compare the concept of sending to Coventry.
A pariah state (also called an international pariah or a global pariah) is a nation considered to be an outcast in the international community. A pariah state may face international isolation , sanctions or even an invasion by nations who find its policies, actions, or even its very existence unacceptable.
Pariah may refer to: A member of the Paraiyar caste in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu; Pariah state, a country whose behavior does not conform to norms
Paraiyar, [1] Parayar [2] or Maraiyar (formerly anglicised as Pariah / p ə ˈ r aɪ. ə / pə-RY-ə and Paree) [3] is a caste group found in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala and in Sri Lanka.
In group theory, the term pariah was introduced by Robert Griess in Griess (1982) to refer to the six sporadic simple groups which are not subquotients of the monster group. The twenty groups which are subquotients, including the monster group itself, he dubbed the happy family. For example, the orders of J 4 and the Lyons Group Ly are ...
The Wide Awakes were a marching club. Their uniform was a full robe or cape and a military style hat, both made of black, shiny fabric. They carried a torch six feet in length to which a large flaming pivoting whale-oil container was mounted. Some carried rail-splitter axes strapped to their backs. The axes and split rails symbolized Abraham ...
Unlike sex, which is essentially individual, it is by its nature collective… like sex it implies some physical action—marching, chanting slogans, singing—through which the merger of the individual in the mass, which is the essence of the collective experience, finds expression.
Pye-dog, or sometimes pariah dog, is a term used to describe an ownerless, half-wild, free-ranging dog that lives in or close to human settlements throughout Asia. The term is derived from the Sanskrit para , which translates to "outsider".